User talk:Sgrmfox

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Battle of Hengyang edits

Hello Sgrmfox, I recently made some edits to Battle of Hengyang and you undid some of them. I'm going to restore some of those changes and I want to explain why. Like almost every publication Wikipedia has its own style. You don't need to know it before you edit Wikipedia, but you will find it helpful as you do more editing. You will find style choices that are different from how you learned in school and different from other publications. Our style manual is at Wikipedia:Manual of Style and its sub pages.

To point out a few things:

MOS:CURLY - Wikipedia uses straight quote marks rather than curly ones.
MOS:LQ - Wikipedia uses "logical quotation" style, which is more like British style and quite different from American.
MOS:HEAD - Section headings, like article titles, are in sentence case, so except for the first letter, words are only capitalized if they would be capitalized in a sentence.

I hope that helps. If you have any questions, let me know by replying below. Thank you, SchreiberBike | ⌨ 22:48, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I didn't deliberately undo anything, but it looks like we were editing at the same time and my updates overlaid yours. I prepare my edits using Word, which seems to use smart quotes by default, and then paste in. I didn't realize that even if you turn smart quotes off it doesn't automatically replace the ones already in the document. I'm going to make some more edits in a day or so, so I could redo your updates at the same time unless you get there first. Sgrmfox (talk) 01:37, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That makes sense. I already got there, and did do some others. Keep up the good work. SchreiberBike | ⌨ 02:27, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I reviewed your changes. Nameless Heights and Municipal Hospital are the translations of the actual Chinese names of these places so I would like to put them back to being capitalized. Everything else looks good. Sgrmfox (talk) 17:37, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]